Forgiveness

Soti Triantafillou

Isbn:

978-960-16-1477-9

Category:

Literature

Number of pages:

128

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Forgiveness GR (excerpt)

“Forgiveness” is a story about random violence; mainly it’s a story about human kindness. If history goes on because of the criminal in us - and in spite of it - kindness is timeless. In “Forgiveness” three heinous crimes are committed; a child goes missing, a family falls apart, the fragile harmony of things turns into a nightmare. A nightmare of hatred, despair and revenge. All is loneliness and nothing is quite as it seems. The murderer is punished as harshly as it takes; however, his conviction and death don’t bring redemption, not even relief. Death is permanent: the dead never come back. The heroine of this book - Antonia Cooper from Nashville, Tennessee - loses her faith, though she doesn’t really know in whom or which. Through a painful journey of feelings, she realizes that forgiveness is the only way to survive, even live. The book is not a comment on religious faith: it’s about being good just for the sake of goodness, it’s about the sovereignty of good.

AUTHOR

Soti Triantafillou

Soti Triantafillou was born in Athens, Greece, in 1957. She got a Ph.D. on American History and Civilization from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and NYU in New York. She has published three collections of short stories, two books on film, ten novels, Saturday Night on the Edge of the Town 1996 (new edition: Patakis Publishers, 2008), Tomorrow, Another Country 1997 (new edition: Patakis Publishers, 2009), The Subterranean Sky 1998 (published in German by Zsolnay, new edition: Patakis Publishers, 2009), The Pencil Factory 2000 (German, French, Catalan & Turkish rights sold), Poor Margo 2001 (originally written in English), Century 2003, Chinese Boxes 2006 (German & Italian rights sold), Some of your blood 2008, For the love of geometry 2011 & Rare Earths 2013, the novellas The Flight (Melani, 2004) & Forgiveness 2005, a memoir Time again 2009, a philosophy book for YA Talking to Alice about Philosophy & the Meaning of Life 2012, a children’s book, Marion on the Silver Islands and in the Red Forests 1999, and a young adults book, African Diary 2008.

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